OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAY 31, 2007 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

 - Appointed Fr. Phillip Pollitzer O.M.I., provincial for Namibia of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, as bishop of Keetmanshoop (area 264,110, population 142,000, Catholics 39,400, priests 25, permanent deacons 9, religious 46), Namibia. The bishop-elect was born in Mortelsdorf, Austria in 1940 and ordained a priest in 1965.

 - Appointed Archbishop Jose Octavio Ruiz Arenas of Villavicencio, Colombia as vice president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America.
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